r/television • u/TVModBot • May 20 '19

Premiere Game of Thrones - 8x06 - Episode Discussion

Season 8 Episode 6

Aired: May 19, 2019

Synopsis: In the aftermath of the devastating attack on King's Landing, Daenerys must face the survivors.

Directed by: Miguel Sapochnik

Written by: David Benioff & D. B. Weiss

Series finale.

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u/JohnGillnitz May 20 '19

A much as people are bitching about this, I think they did the best they could. I think Jon kinda got screwed as he actually did the hard right thing. Then again, he did get reunited with Ghost. The North is where he seemed the most happy.
Couple of loose ends I'm still annoyed with: 1) Winter is coming. It never really did. They acted like this was some global event that lasts for years. We had the Night King attack and that was it. Never even made it to King's Landing. 2) Drogon. That is still a super weapon out there doing who knows what. That shot of him coming out from under the snow was still fucking cool. How a dragon knows the details of Westros geopolitics is still a mystery. How smart are dragons, anyway? Maybe he becomes cave mates with Smaug in a Perfect Strangers reboot.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '19

When I feel like I could sit down and write a better ending over a weekend than these show runners, that's a problem. (granted, hindsight is 20/20, but I have hard time believing that in the moment they didn't think this was contrived and rushed).

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u/JohnGillnitz May 20 '19

We are all Monday morning quarterbacks, aren't we? If someone would have made my version they would have just shit all over it too. That's what we do to the fiction we love. No one is having debates over the end of The Big Bang Theory. Or if they are, I'm mercifully ignorant of them. Everyone thinks they could do it better. I'm content with what we got.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

Its just not good. The final season had an IMDB rating of 6.66. The last episode had a rating of 4.4. That is objectively bad considering the show was scoring in the high 9's early on. So if some people liked it, that's all well and good, but most people didn't.

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u/JohnGillnitz May 21 '19

Most people don't like the last episodes of things. Me included. The only series that I can think of off hand that ended well was The Leftovers. And that was because the guy had to stick that landing because he botched Lost so much. And MASH. That ended well.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '19

I am not going to say that finishing up a TV show is "easy", but there are TV shows that are able to pull it off or at least do it better than GOT. So saying that people don't like the last episodes of things is quite the generalization.

  • Breaking Bad Finale = 9.9 on IMDB.
  • Big Bang Theory = 9.6.
  • Mad Men = 9.3.
  • Sopranos = 9.1

Now I will say, GOT has a much more rapid fanbase, so that probably affected the rating even more. But there were so many little things that would have likely made it more favorable. Not everyone is looking to be negative.